NEW DELHI: The government said on Saturday that 1,023 positive Covid-19 cases in 17 states, which make up nearly 30% of the total cases in the country, so farmers were linked to the Tablighi Jamaat event. He also added that around 22,000 Tablighi Jamaat workers and their contacts have been quarantined across the country “as part of a massive effort.”

“So, among all the Covid-19 cases that have come so far, almost 30% are linked to a place where we couldn’t understand and manage it,” Agarwal said, stressing the importance of ensuring strict efforts at all levels, as well as coordinated action

Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry has said that around 22,000 Tablighi workers and their contacts have been located across the country and quarantined so far in a massive containment effort.

Joint Secretary of the Interior Ministry, Punya Salila Srivastava, said Saturday that the Interior Ministry control room operated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with around 200 NDRF staff and central armed police forces, to solve all problems at ground level in coordination with state governments and administrations of the Union territory.